2019 LOCAL ELECTIONS
Men and Women to Run Together 58 HDP Municipalities
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The Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has won the elections in three metropolitan, five city and 46 district municipalities, according to the latest figures from the state-run Anadolu Agency (AA).
Acting according to the co-chairpersonship system, the party nominated one woman and one man for each of the municipalities it raced for. Although only one person can be officially nominated for a municipality, a co-chair can come into office after the elections.
Women candidates won in five districts in Mardin
The number of women who were officially nominated as mayoral candidates and won the election is 25. In the five districts that HDP won in the southeastern province Mardin, all five candidates were women.
Among provinces where HDP submitted women as mayoral candidates, two were won by the party. Bedia Özgökçe Ertan won the elections in Van and Berivan Helen Işık won in Siirt.
In other six provinces, women were elected as "co-chairs": Songül Korkmaz (Batman), Figen Altındağ (Mardin), Şevin Alaca (Kars), Eylem Çelik (Iğdır), Seher Kadiroğlu Ataş (Hakkari), and Hülya Alökmen Uyanık (Diyarbakır).
Full list of the 58 municipalities that HDP wonAccording to unofficial results, HDP won the elections in the following places: Diyarbakır Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality Co-Chairs: Selçuk Mızraklı – Hülya Alökmen Uyanık Bağlar: Zeyyat Ceylan – Zübeyde Zümrüt Bismil: Orhan Ayaz – Gülşen Özer Çınar: Bedri Kaya – Necla Tamriş Dicle: Felat Aygören – Yasemin Üçer Eğil: Mustafa Akkul – Gülistan Ensarioğlu Ergani: Ahmet Kaya – Meryem Yıldız Hazro: Ahmet Çevik – Gülistan Ekti Kayapınar: Keziban Yılmaz – Necati Pirinççioğlu Kocaköy: Rojda Nazlier – Kasım Pervane Kulp: Mehmet Fatih Taş – Fatma Ay Lice: Tarık Mercan – Ruken Yılmaz Silvan: Naşide Toprak – Abbas Hilmi Azizoğlu Sur: Feyme Filiz Buluttekin – Cemal Özdemir Yenişehir: Belgin Diken – İbrahim Çiçek Van Van Metropolitan Municipality Co-Chairs: Bedia Özgökçe Ertan - Mustafa Avcı Başkale: Erkan Acar – Şengül Polat Çaldıran: Leyla Atsak – Faruk Demir Edremit: Gülcan Kaçmaz Sayyiğit – Medeni Özer İpekyolu: Azim Yacan – Şehzade Kurt Muradiye: Yılmaz Şalan – Leyla Balkan Özalp: Yakup Yalmaç – Dilan Örenci Saray: Caziye Duman – Şahabettin Bilmez Tuşba: Yılmaz Berki – Ayşe Minaz Erciş: Yıldız Çetin - Mahmut Pala Mardin Mardin Metropolitan Municipality Co-Chairs: Ahmet Türk – Necla Figen Altındağ Derik: Mülkiye Esmez – Mehmet Şerif Kıran Kızıltepe: Nilüfer Elik Yılmaz – Salih Kuday Mazıdağı: Nalan Özaydın – İbrahim Çoko Nusaybin: Semire Nergiz – Ferhat Kut Savur: Gülistan Öncü – Mehmet Yasin Kalhan Batman Batman Municipality Co-Chairs: Mehmet Demir – Songül Korkmaz Kozluk: Ayhan Eren – Nazime Avcı Ağrı Diyadin: Betül Yaşar – Evren Demir Doğubayazıt: Yıldız Acar – Cesim Çakan Patnos: Emrah Kılıç – Müşerref Geçer Erzurum Karaçoban: Halit Uğun – Remziye Sönmez Karayazı: Melike Göksu – Burhanettin Şahin Tekman: Muzahir Karakuş – Yanes Çelik Muş Bulanık: Adnan Topçu – Eylem Saruca Malazgirt: Erdal Çakar – Münevver Ceylan Varto: Ülkü Karaaslan – Mahmut Yalçın Bitlis Güroymak: Hikmet Taşdemir – Dilek Ozan Hakkari Hakkari Municipality Co-Chairs: Cihan Karaman – Seher Kadiroğlu Ataş Yüksekova: Remziye Yaşar – İrfan Sari Şırnak Cizre: Mehmet Zırığ – Berivan Kutlu İdil: Songül Erden – Murat Şen Silopi: Adalet Fidan – Süleyman Şavluk Urfa Suruç: Hatice Çevik – Abdullah Polat Iğdır Iğdır Municipality Co-Chairs: Yaşar Akkuş – Eylem Çelik Siirt Siirt Municipality Co-Chairs: Berivan Helen Işık – Resul Kaçar Baykan: Remzi Sarsılmaz – Özden Gülmez Kurtalan: Baran Akgül – Esmer Baran Kars Kars Municipality Co-Chairs: Ayhan Bilgen – Şevin Alaca |
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